Bug 17816

Summary: strange behaviour of /bin/mail
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Joachim Backes <joachim.backes>
Component: mailxAssignee: Florian La Roche <laroche>
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Description Joachim Backes 2000-09-25 05:42:06 UTC
Calling /bin/mail by

		mail -u <some user>

as root says: No mail for <some user>, but
 
		mail -f /var/spool/mail/<some user>

lists the emails for <some user> correctly.

The man page of mail says that the two command calls are
equivalent.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-11-02 13:48:15 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17461 ***